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WAP & WML

Notes Elements Attributes

 Attributes provide additional information about an element.
 A certain group of attributes will apply to a certain set of elements.
<card id = “code”>
<do type=”accept” label=”exit”>

<option value=”d”>
<p align=”center”>

Paragraphs and Line Breaks

A WML card can be set up to display the paragraph and line break functions of WML:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">
<wml>
<card title="Paragraphs">
<p>

This is a paragraph
</p>
<p>
This is another<br/>with a line break
</p>
</card>
</wml>

The result MIGHT look like this in your mobile phone display:
——— Paragraphs ———
This is a paragraph This is another with a line break

Paragraph Attributes

Table 6.3 gives the list of Paragraph Attributes.
Table 6.3

Attribute Purpose
align=”left” Aligns text to the left. This is the default.
align=”center” Aligns text to the center
align=”right” Aligns text to the right
mode=”wrap” Lets the browser break long lines and “wrap” to display remainder on
next line. This is the default.
mode=”nowrap” Forces the browser to not break a long line of text

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